Scripture teaching for spiritual growth.
Sfmin is a sermon-driven Christian teaching feed built around Steve Franklin’s urgent readings of scripture. Episodes move from public Bible reading into direct application, pressing listeners toward prayer, humility, surrender, spiritual vigilance, and confidence in God’s correction.
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Sfmin is a Christian teaching feed rooted in the ministry voice of Steve Franklin. It sounds like a church service because it largely behaves like one. Scripture is read aloud, prayer frames the teaching, and the message moves toward response rather than mere reflection. The pace is brisk. Franklin stacks phrases, returns to a point, sharpens it, and then turns it toward the listener’s motives, fears, habits, and faith. Recent episodes focus on prayer, resurrection, spiritual resistance, correction, worship, and spiritual renewal. Answered prayer is treated with seriousness, including the possibility that God is exposing motives or redirecting a desire from relief toward deeper resolution. Resurrection teaching becomes a source of living hope. Spiritual warfare is described in plain church language, with submission to God and resistance to the devil placed together. The correction of the Lord is a recurring concern. Franklin argues that discipline may not feel pleasant, but it can be loving, helpful, and tied to identity as God’s children. Several messages press toward intimacy with Jesus as the real prize beneath direction, clarity, recognition, or personal success. The show is often encouraging. It is also corrective. It speaks to believers who expect preaching to challenge unbelief, distrust, pride, passivity, and the desire to be seen. Worship is presented through Romans 12 as a surrendered life and a renewed mind, not only a song or service moment. Media, politics, education, and worldly systems appear as examples of influences that need to be tested by scripture. The result is a direct, Bible-saturated feed for Christians who want exhortation with emotional heat and practical application. It does not aim for detached analysis. It aims for growth, surrender, and a closer walk with Jesus.
Made for: Sfmin is for Christians who want sermon-style teaching on prayer, faith, correction, worship, and intimacy with Jesus. It best suits listeners comfortable with direct biblical exhortation and congregational church language.
What sets it apart: Its strength is the combination of warmth and correction: Steve Franklin encourages believers while repeatedly pressing them to examine motives, unbelief, pride, and spiritual drift. The feed feels like ongoing ministry formation rather than topical commentary.
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Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Steve Franklin turns biblical passages into direct examinations of prayer, motive, obedience and a believer's continuing growth.
Steve Franklin builds sermons around a biblical passage, then presses its claims into ordinary spiritual habits. Romans 12 becomes a call to examine how thought is shaped; Philippians 3 leads into growth, surrender and intimacy with Jesus; Joshua becomes a lesson in meeting…
Steve Franklin turns Jordan Rivers and reset buttons into a practical vocabulary for your next faithful move.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Steve Franklin asks whether unanswered prayer may call for corrected motives, obedience, and deeper service.
Steve Franklin considers whether unanswered prayer may expose a problem in what believers are asking from God. He draws useful distinctions between seeking relief or resolution, recognition or service, and victory in an argument or care for a relationship.
A direct sermon on confronting unbelief and surrendering to deeper intimacy with Jesus.
Steve Franklin presents spiritual renewal as a return to deeper intimacy with Jesus, working from Philippians and Paul's rejection of fleshly religious credentials.
A Philippians 3 call to reset stalled faith and keep pressing toward deeper intimacy with Jesus.
Steve Franklin frames Philippians 3 around the image of a spiritual reset button, calling believers to release what keeps growth stalled, whether past sin, old wounds, or even previous victories.
A Joshua-centered sermon turns the Jordan, the ark, and the next right step into a call for holy dependence.
Steve Franklin's fifth session on moving on frames the Jordan River as a picture of circumstances that look impossible, then centers its counsel on Joshua's command to keep the ark of the covenant in view.
A clear Romans 12 sermon connects worship, renewed thinking, and a life shaped by God's truth.
This single-episode review presents worship as a whole-life response to God's mercy, framed through Romans 12:1-2. It follows Paul's appeal to offer the body as a living sacrifice, then turns toward the call to resist conformity and seek renewal of the mind.
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Steve Franklin says Romans 12:2 requires a mind that is not "conformed to this world."
Steve Franklin teaches session five on 'Moving On: Taking the Next Right Step' from Joshua 1-3 and Hebrews 3-4.
A sermon teaching that believers have a new identity in Christ, enabling them to live by faith and fulfill their role as ambassadors of reconciliation.
Steve Franklin teaches verse by verse through James 1, focusing on laying aside filthiness, receiving the implanted word, and spiritual warfare.
Steve Franklin delivers a sermon on repentance, realignment, and renewal, using Solomon's temple dedication as a call for believers to seek God in times of trouble.
Steve Franklin teaches on the traits of a great spiritual mother using the biblical example of Elizabeth from Luke chapter 1.
Steve Franklin encourages believers to trust God's plan and avoid judging others, using personal stories and a message from a ministry partner.
Steve Franklin’s Sfmin teaching asks why prayers seem unanswered and identifies failure to ask, misaligned motives, and refusal to forgive as three reasons.
A sermon on the resurrection of Jesus Christ as a game-changer for believers, based on 1 Peter 1:3-5, Romans 15:13, and John 11:25-26.
A sermon on issuing a spiritual restraining order against the devil by submitting to God and resisting evil.
Steve Franklin teaches from Hebrews 12:5-11 that the Lord’s correction is connected to love, child training, holiness, and spiritual family membership.
Steve Franklin opens a mini-series on God's correction with Hebrews 12:5-11, arguing that "the chastening of the Lord is not punitive" because 1 John 2:2 says Jesus is the propitiation for sin.
Steve Franklin teaches from Philippians 3 in the January series “hitting your spiritual reset button,” saying Paul’s goal is to “know him” and “press toward the goal.” He argues that intimacy with Jesus comes through “conversation” instead of “recitation,” and he links that to worship, thanksgiving, and hearing the Holy Spirit.
Paul says to "forgetting those things which are behind" and press toward "the upward call of God in Christ Jesus."